The secure workspace for enterprise AI
First Recon AI builds the Secure Enterprise AI Workspace, purpose built on a native security and governance runtime, so enterprises can adopt AI quickly and govern it with confidence.
Why we built First Recon AI
First Recon AI emerged from internal R&D at Persefoni, where we applied large language models across our own business. We were our own first customer, a regulated enterprise platform working out how to put AI to work without losing control of its data.
As we evaluated the AI security tools available, the gap was clear. Most were not designed for how enterprises adopt, govern, and secure AI. They rest on perimeter assumptions and bolt-on policies that break down once AI is in daily use, and they cannot read a prompt, judge the intent behind an interaction, or act before data reaches a model. Having led large IT, data, and security organizations ourselves, we knew secure adoption takes more than add-on tooling.
The technical foundation came from the same work. Lightweight, quantized language models proved efficient enough to run security enforcement locally, at the endpoint where AI use happens. That research set the runtime's enforcement position, with policy applied inline, before the prompt reaches the model's API. It pairs enforcement at the endpoint with centralized inspection, governance, and audit in one platform. We built the layered controls we could not buy.
The proving ground
Figures are Persefoni's. First Recon AI was built inside Persefoni, whose platform serves The New York Times, Snowflake, Xerox, Apollo Global Management, and SMBC.
What carries over is the operating discipline, not the history. Persefoni runs a regulated, enterprise-grade platform that has passed the security and compliance reviews of some of the world's most demanding enterprises, and First Recon AI is built with the deployment models, support rigor, and review scar tissue that operation earned.
Our own security practices are documented, in the open, on the security page.
The founding team
First Recon AI was founded by the team behind Persefoni, who have spent years operating an enterprise platform under the scrutiny of large, regulated customers.
Kentaro Kawamori
Co-Founder & CEOCo-founder and CEO of Persefoni, where First Recon AI was built. Former Chief Digital Officer at Chesapeake Energy, a Fortune 500 company, where he led IT, digital, and data. Co-founded Umbrage, acquired by Bain & Company; Forbes 30 Under 30; previously Cloud Practice Lead at Accenture.
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Kim Stroh
Co-Founder & CTOCo-founder and CTO of Persefoni, and a computer scientist and mathematician with deep product and architecture expertise. A decade leading proprietary application development at a Fortune 500 company; an enterprise SaaS pioneer.
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Jason Offerman
Co-Founder, President & COOCo-founder and President of Persefoni, with nearly 30 years across operations, strategy, and engineering. Led one of the most significant operational technology rollouts in the energy sector; advisor at Rice Investment Group.
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David Muczynski
Co-Founder & VP EngineeringEngineering leader at Persefoni, where First Recon AI was built, after two decades of software engineering across enterprise platforms including Nexient, GE Capital, and DTE Energy. Deep focus on agentic AI and multi-agent systems; holds a master's degree from Michigan State University.
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Russ Mitchell
Co-FounderExecutive Vice President at Persefoni and co-founder of Marker Advisors, which has provided software and cybersecurity channel research to investors since 2007. More than 25 years of leadership across global software ecosystems; advisor to private equity and venture capital firms; educated at MIT.
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Shinji Tsukamoto
Co-FounderEVP, Global Chief Commercial Officer & President APAC at Persefoni. Former Vice President at Amazon, where he led the Amazon Ads business across APAC. 25+ years in digital advertising and SaaS, with executive roles at Microsoft Advertising, Mitsui & Co., and Limelight Networks; an active investor and advisor to startups globally.
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Extended founding team
Beyond the co-founders, a small group of early builders shaped the platform from its first commits.
Eliana Cameira
Founding TeamHead of Marketing at First Recon AI and Persefoni, where she owns growth and demand generation across the full funnel. Her career spans more than a decade across high-growth SaaS and globally recognized technology companies including Skyscanner, Lucid, and Dell Technologies, where she has helped shape global marketing strategy and worked at the intersection of brand, product, and commercial growth.
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Adam Conrath
Founding TeamAdam Conrath is Vice President at First Recon AI, leading commercial, partnership and product strategies. With a career spanning enterprise software, consulting, and SaaS, Adam has consulted and sold to the world's largest organizations across digital transformation, API deployments, SAP migrations, and multimillion-dollar implementations. Prior to First Recon AI, he was VP GTM at Persefoni, where he led enterprise sales, go-to-market and channel strategy for one of the world's leading carbon accounting platforms. Prior to Persefoni, he drove enterprise sales and partnerships across API management and iPaaS at MuleSoft, and served in PwC's SAP practice leading S/4 HANA migrations for global enterprises. Adam holds a degree in IT Management from the University of Notre Dame.
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Takehiro “Trey” Endo
Founding TeamLeads First Recon AI in Japan while also serving as Country Manager of Persefoni Japan. Brings more than a decade of experience in enterprise technology sales, business development, and go-to-market leadership. Previously led enterprise transformation initiatives and supported Silicon Valley technology companies expanding into Japan.
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Tyler Richardson
Founding TeamTyler is a founding team member at First Recon AI and Head of Design at Persefoni, where he built the company's design systems from the ground up. He's a product design leader with two decades shaping complex enterprise products across design, systems, and engineering. He leads product design, owns front-end development, and builds agentic design systems that scale quality and brand consistency across every interface.
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Jessica Bergman
Director of Sales, North AmericaJessica brings 21+ years in tech sales leadership, GTM strategy, and partnership management across the ISV, Cloud, MSP, and SI ecosystems. Her background includes leading AWS alliance and go-to-market efforts at Spectro Cloud and SoftwareOne, where she built the first AWS-focused sales organization in North America.
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| BUILT FROM THE INSIDE OUT | We have run enterprise IT and security organizations; we build for constraints we know firsthand |
| SECURITY-FIRST, PRODUCTIVITY-ENABLED | Enterprises should put AI to work without giving up control, governance, or compliance |
| LAYERED, NOT BOLTED ON | Real AI security is defense in depth, at the endpoint, at the model boundary, and across AI traffic |
| ENTERPRISE-PROVEN FOUNDATIONS | Built on the operating discipline of a regulated enterprise platform, backed by institutional investors |
AI Security Runtime™ is built into the Secure Enterprise AI Workspace. Semantic Security evaluates meaning, intent, sensitive data, and threats; the Security Context Graph™ grounds each decision in identity, device, data, and policy. Together they give security teams real-time control across enterprise AI.
First Recon AI is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, and partners with Conscia Group, a pan-European cybersecurity and managed IT services provider, to serve European enterprises.
